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McRib is a hilarious name for a service
by epmatsw 4y ago
McRib is a hilarious name for a service
- whoopdedo 4y agoI certainly wouldn't trust it's availability. (The original McDonald's McRib sandwich is well known for only being sold a limited time.) So "Mcrouter" comes from Memcache-Router, then the obvious McDonalds jokes are made and someone cleverly suggests "Mcrib" for the next service. But I can't think what the backronym would be for it. Memcache Ring Buffer maybe. Or Broker.
- jonah-archive 4y agoRIB is a common term in networking for "Routing Information Base" (being the set of all routes which could be chosen to be installed in the routing table (or FIB -- "Forwarding") by the control plane. I don't know that this is the actual etymology but it's not implausible.
- phan 4y agomemcache router interface broker
- bee_rider 4y agoApparently it generates configurations for Mcrouter. Could be MemCache-Router Instance Borker.
- true_religion 4y agoI think you meant Broker, but the misspelling is an act of genius since we are talking about downtime caused by an infrastructure failure.
- qubyte 4y agoAnd I misread it as McBorker and now I can't stop chuckling.
- erichurkman 4y agoMcBorker, Chaos Monkey's cousin.
- bee_rider 4y agoDoes it make it less of an act of genius if it was intentional?
- true_religion 4y agoNo it’s be more an act of genius then. I think I meant something like serendipity.
- JetAlone 4y agoThey had to know when they picked that name. If workers at Slack actually pronounce it like "Ehm See Rib" or, forbid it, "Ehm See Ahr Eye Bee" and not "McRib", I have very little interest in working there.